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I know it might be a stupid question but, is any other group making patches for the other games??

There was a fellow who was doing it, but I haven't seen any fruits of labor from him. I e-mailed him about being a translator, and we discussed it for a while, but I haven't heard from him in two months, so I assume he's given up.

Maybe after Minagoroshi and Matsuribayashi are finished we can go back and do the rest?

It's a shame since Higurashi might be one of those games that'll never see the light in western countries (for example I'm so~ praying to see the PS2 -or whatever- version in english, but it's almost unlikely), even though it has so many fans.

I'll be surprised if they finish Matsuribayashi. Projects like these have a nasty habit of never being finished from lack of motivation or whatever.

And you know what ? Such pessimism isn't going to help the translation whatsoever.
But anyway, I can see that you're reading Kj's thread, so I figure you have abandoned hope already.
The only driving force for my translation is knowing that some people will choose to wait over getting spoiled on forums.

And you know what ? Such pessimism isn't going to help the translation whatsoever.
But anyway, I can see that you're reading Kj's thread, so I figure you have abandoned hope already.
The only driving force for my translation is knowing that some people will choose to wait over getting spoiled on forums.

Still happy I'm stubborn and dedicated though.

I don't wish to be so pessimistic, I'm just speaking what I think is most likely to happen. And knowing the answer isn't enough for me. I like knowing all the little details how everything came to be. I'm still looking forward to playing the games.

Some more info from our team, and some more teaser screens.
The crew is now sailing, and hopefully we'll be releasing things soon.
As ayyo mentioned on the blog, we'll be releasing the game chapter by chapter, to prevent the wait from being too atrocious... well there'll be waiting no matter what, but at least this'll make it less painful.

Oooooo Can't wait. Not that the 'release by chapter' really benefits me seen as I'm mostly an arc watcher (though I bet temptation will come knocking) and as such will likely be waiting for everything to be released anyway, but it'll nice to be able to watch the progress. Doing my best to avoid getting spoiled. Thanks for all the hard work the team's putting in with this, I get the feeling we'll actually see this one done.

In preparation of installing Matsuribayashi, I followed the guide found here as per the instructions on Zettai Makenai. However, it makes some things...function weird. Like I have a yen symbol instead of a back slash in explorer, and text on some web pages is funky (like smaller, and Arial instead of bigger and Times New Roman). Is there any way around this, or is this to be expected?

In preparation of installing Matsuribayashi, I followed the guide found here as per the instructions on Zettai Makenai. However, it makes some things...function weird. Like I have a yen symbol instead of a back slash in explorer, and text on some web pages is funky (like smaller, and Arial instead of bigger and Times New Roman). Is there any way around this, or is this to be expected?

Just a TIP

people who doesn have the XP CD can still google the files to set the system to japanese

In preparation of installing Matsuribayashi, I followed the guide found here as per the instructions on Zettai Makenai. However, it makes some things...function weird. Like I have a yen symbol instead of a back slash in explorer, and text on some web pages is funky (like smaller, and Arial instead of bigger and Times New Roman). Is there any way around this, or is this to be expected?

The yen symbol instead of backslash is normal and you'll get used to it.

The text on webpages getting 'funky' is probably your explorer changing the unicode and/or your default font settings. I don't remember that happening but you'll get used that too I suppose.